In honor of my five-year anniversary blogging at Felice Mi Fa, I am sharing five of my favorite, most meaningful posts. Since I usually post some version of Seven Quick Takes on Fridays, it seemed fitting that I choose one of my lists of seven for the final post in this retrospective week. I had trouble choosingContinue reading >>
When we don’t like the Gospel: on burying the Boston Marathon bomber
By all accounts, Peter Stefan has been going about his business of burying the dead for a long time, with little attention outside of Worcester, MA. Now the funeral director is at the center of a controversy because the body of Boston marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev lies in his funeral home awaiting burial. When newsContinue reading >>
Children of Eternity: the Boston Prays Together interfaith prayer service
I was proud of so many things while watching the prayer service in response to the Boston marathon bombing. I was proud of my city, proud of its leaders, proud of its faith community, proud of its artists, and proud of its intellect. The faith leaders who spoke demonstrated phenomenal theological imagination, and I wasContinue reading >>
Blood on my bus stop
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Indeed, it happened once before. I was in a Medieval/Renaissance music class on the other side of Boston when planes took off from Boston Logan Airport that would later be flown into the World Trade Center. But that was different. Though Boston panicked and wept and lost,Continue reading >>
Seven observations on the death of Margaret Thatcher
— 1 — Margarets are memorable Growing up in the 80s I remember kids teasing me by calling me “Margaret Thatcher”. We weren’t any more politically or internationally aware than your average grade-schoolers, so I’m not sure how this came about. That was when I began compiling a mental list of “Famous Margarets” (not longContinue reading >>